Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/October 2

Births

 * 1452 - King Richard III of England (d. 1485) (pictured)
 * 1800 - Nat Turner, American leader of slave uprising (d. 1831)
 * 1847 - Paul von Hindenburg, German officer and politician (d. 1934)
 * 1851 - Ferdinand Foch, French soldier (d. 1929)
 * 1869 - Mahatma Gandhi, Indian politician and spiritual leader. (d. 1948)
 * 1871 - Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1955)
 * 1890 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)
 * 1904 - Graham Greene, British novelist (d. 1991)
 * 1937 - Johnnie Cochran, American attorney (d. 2005)
 * 1951 - Sting, English musician and actor

Deaths

 * 1764 - William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 * 1968 - Marcel Duchamp, French artist (b. 1887)
 * 1973 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
 * 1985 - Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
 * 1987 - Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1915)